Chapter 78: This demonic mist… this man is the infamous Slime. Kaelen Cross!

[You have reached the strength cap for Tier 31 Lifeforms]

[Do you wish to spend 800,000,000,000 Evolution Points to ascend to Tier 32?]

Booooom—!!!

Kaelen gnashed his teeth without pausing for a moment. The flame had yet to escape the supreme elder dragon’s mouth when he whipped out the Primordial staff and stamped it into the ground.

"Infinite Mana... Multi-Cast!"

"Miasma Slime!"

"Shadow Slime!"

"Spark of Extinction!"

"Basic Fireball!"

The entire advance team’s pupils constricted as they watched the battle that had not even begun. Yet, the two opponents were already using their advanced skills.

The one who surprised them most was the man in the miner’s outfit, whom none of them had recognized up until that moment.

"I-Is that a Primordial staff?" Someone blurted in sheer shock.

"Is that what you’re most worried about? Is it just me, or did this man just go up 20 evolution realms faster than my Eye of God Talent could track?!"

"That’s the same man that caused a huge scene in the wastland just a few days ago!"

"No... those skills. This demonic mist... this man is the infamous Slime. Kaelen Cross!"

Everyone’s eyes widened in shock and disbelief, and even the Emperor was so stunned that he couldn’t find his words.

Before anyone could speculate further, the white mist swept through the floor like a snowstorm.

"Take cover!" Someone screamed out from the mist, and almost immediately, the entire advance team raised a shield barrier before them, almost like they’d practiced this a thousand times.

This wasn’t nearly enough to take out the strongest team across Evolution Online.

KaBooooom—!!!

A chain explosion rang out, consuming the entire floor in dark crimson and extreme heat.

The first chain was Divine-Tier flame from Kaelen’s Spark of Extinction.

20% of the advance team was wiped out. The supreme elder dragon wasn’t shaken.

The second chain was the Primordial-Tier flame from Kaelen’s Basic Fireball and the Primordial-Tier Staff.

70% of the advance team was wiped out. The supreme elder dragon stood its ground.

The third chain was the Supreme-Tier flame from the Supreme Elder Dragon itself, amplified by a hundredfold damage from Kaelen’s Primordial Chaos Bloodline.

Where was the advance team again?

[You have died.]

[You have died.]

[You have died.]

...

That was the last thing the Emperor and the surviving stronghold lords saw before their vision went dark.

The supreme elder dragon was knocked back by the force of the explosion that far surpassed anything it could breathe, slamming through several pillars before it slammed into the walls, creating metres-deep craters that made it look like a bizarre work of art in a national museum.

[You have killed the Paladins of the Evil Church.]

[You have received 1,850,000,000,000 Evolution Points.]

[You have killed the (5000) Dragon Army of the Apocalypse Harbinger.]

[You have received 15,000,000,000,000 Evolution Points.]

"Formless Dragon Sword Art!"

The supreme elder dragon was yet to recover and climb to its feet when the mushroom cloud contained in the floor was forcefully dispersed to reveal millions of flying swords.

Snap—

A crisp snap of fingers broke the unnerving silence like the calm waters before a thunderstorm.

Booooom—!!

The flying sword army rained down like tiny water droplets, tearing into the crater that held the supreme elder dragon.

A powerful shockwave suddenly exploded from the crater, deflecting and destroying all the incoming blades, and a figure sped out of the cloud of dust at light speed, arriving before Kaelen in an instant with his fist above his head.

Boom—!

Kaelen raised his arm at the last minute to catch the blow, but was still sent flying like a broken ragdoll.

The person who had punched him wasn’t the same dragon with a height and wings that spanned thousands of metres. Rather, it was a tall humanoid covered from head to toe in dark crimson scales resembling those of the supreme elder dragon.

The supreme elder dragon must’ve realized its size made it an easy target, so it transformed into a smaller humanoid version to fight Kaelen head-to-head.

Kaelen smashed through several pillars, but was still caught in the air when the supreme elder dragon arrived before him in an instant once more and slammed his fist into his chest. And just as his body changed trajectory like a broken kite, the supreme elder dragon was already before him, throwing another punch.

In that single moment, the supreme elder dragon had thrown over a thousand punches, throwing Kaelen like a ball without letting him hit anything except its fists.

"WHOEVER STANDS BEFORE ME WITH HATRED IN HIS HEART LOSES THE ABILITY TO CAUSE PAIN IN OTHERS. I AM THE SUPREME ELDER DRAGON. THE RULER OF DRAGONS ACROSS THE UNIVERSE."

The supreme elder dragon clasped his fists together and brought them down on Kaelen’s chest, sending him down into a deep crater in the earth.

The supreme elder dragon appeared on top of him and began throwing a flurry of punches that made the ground beneath Kaelen quake violently.

"YOUR FATHER SINNED AND IS NO MORE, AND YOU SHALL BEAR THE PUNISHMENT. YOUR WORLD SHALL BURN AND BECOME PREY TO MY PEOPLE."

"Such hypocrisy." A sharp voice suddenly came from behind the supreme elder dragon, and he snapped his head to see Kaelen calmly walking towards him as he ripped pages off a book, creating a trail of pages along the path he walked.

No. It wasn’t just from a book.

He summoned a book every time and ripped it in two before summoning another like a crazed scholar.

The supreme elder dragon snapped his head back at the Kaelen he was hitting, only for it to turn to shadow and disperse like it was never there.

Its eyes widened in shock and disbelief. It had been too consumed by rage to realize it was only hitting a dummy that carried the same mana signature as the enemy.

"If whoever has hatred in his heart should lose the ability to cause pain in others, that should be you. Because I feel nothing... but amusement. You have just proven yourself unworthy of the title of Supreme Elder Dragon, just a foolish dragon. So I hereby coronate you from this day henceforth to be known as the Supreme Kid Dragon, slain by the Supreme One—me."

"HOW DARE YOU?!" The supreme elder dragon roared.

Kaelen only smiled faintly as he tossed the last ripped Divine-Tier skill book in his hands, and the entire ripped 100,000 pages lit up in glowing runes.